On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Erg Consultant
erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote:
LSOpenCFURLRef doesn't work either - kLSApplicationNotFoundErr.
The nature of the file is the app's exe which is normally inside the MacOS
dir.
However, all this works perfectly fine if there are no special
On 28/04/2009, at 11:02 , Dave DeLong wrote:
Is there a way to get the second frontmost app? For example, right
now Mail.app is the frontmost, then Safari, because Safari was the
active app before I switched to Mail. Is there any sort of API to
that tells me that if I were to cmd-tab,
I should mention I am using XCode 2.5 under 10.5 so I cannot use the 10.5 SDK
nor Obj-C 2.0.
Erg
From: Stephen J. Butler stephen.but...@gmail.com
To: Cocoa-Dev List cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:14:44 PM
Subject: Re: Why is
Hi,
I have float values in my iPhone program, when I type in a textfield and
print it it shows a little different value than what I have typed, I used
printf to see the results. I can't understand why its happening. How can I
resolve this.
For example textfield.floatValue
actual value typed -
On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Erg Consultant wrote:
I write the original STL string to a tmp file, then read it back in.
The file is encoded in MacRoman. I tried UTF8 with both converting
and reinterpreting but if I use UTF8 when I read it back from file,
the read returns nil. If I use
Hi,
I am trying to store values in a SQLite database and retrieve them, they are
currency values, so what is the alternative or solution I will have to look
for, I am confused with this. Please is there any work around ??
Regards,
-Tharindu
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Yes, I've verified that everything is correct. I zero'ed the launch param block
and set kLSLaunchDefaults.
Oddly, I can now get it to work in the built release version (binary) but if I
run it from the debugger, LSOpenApplication returns noErr, but if I try to get
the pid of the launched,
On 28/04/2009, at 5:24 PM, Tharindu Madushanka wrote:
what is the alternative or solution I will have to look
for
NSDecimal?
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Le 28 avr. 09 à 05:02, Dave DeLong a écrit :
Hey everyone,
Is there a way to get the second frontmost app? For example, right
now Mail.app is the frontmost, then Safari, because Safari was the
active app before I switched to Mail. Is there any sort of API to
that tells me that if I
On 28 Apr 09, at 00:38, Graham Cox wrote:
On 28/04/2009, at 5:24 PM, Tharindu Madushanka wrote:
what is the alternative or solution I will have to look
for
NSDecimal?
Or integers. Just because a number is represented to the user with a
decimal point doesn't mean that the internal
Hi,
I have an application in which i am trying to display information about the
student in a table. The table has 2 columns. One representing the
enble/disble in a check box
and the other column representing the student column. I have enabled
double-click action on the table column.
So once i
Maybe I miss something, but it seems, the standard KVO does not work
for properties whose values are non-objects, say int, float etc.
How can I effortless accomplish to observe at such properties?
For instance:
@interface Model {
int value;
}
@property int value;
@end
@interface
Hi,
For larger views I'm not even getting the blur view, its giving some
garbage output... If the view needs to be divided into 20 to 25
images , each image of print rect size.
Thanks
NareshK
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Peter N Lewis wrote:
On 27/04/2009, at 12:16 , Naresh Kongara
Hello,
i use an NSPopUpButton to display color choices that the user can set
in user defaults. There is one view with an NSCollectionView
controlled by an NSDictionarycontroller, which populates the
dictionary CTColorsDictionary in user defaults with color values
(using NSKeyedArchiver)
On 28/04/2009, at 8:23 PM, Andreas Grosam wrote:
Maybe I miss something, but it seems, the standard KVO does not work
for properties whose values are non-objects, say int, float etc.
How can I effortless accomplish to observe at such properties?
Scalar properties (int, float, etc) are
Hello,
I'm trying to find out how to get the list of items in the Shared
group of the Finder sidebar.
* I see that using the LSSharedFileList API along with the
kLSSharedFileListRecentServerItems constant I can fetch the list of
Servers from the Recent Items menu
* The
Hi,
I have a formatted text in an NSTextStorage which I would like to draw.
I also have an array of character locations where to break the text into
lines. Is there a way to add soft line breaks to the layout without
modifying the unicode string (inserting line break characters)? In the
ATSU-world
Also have a look at:
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AutoHyperlinksFramework
On 28 Apr 2009, at 05:05, Mr. Gecko wrote:
One thing I can try is to put every word in a array, go through
them, see if they contain http or https in the beginning, if so add
a href=URLURL/a to it.
On Apr 27, 2009,
On 2009 Apr 28, at 00:35, Mahaboob wrote:
The folder permission of LaunchDaemons is read only.
So I can't write the plist file into this folder programmatically.
How can I do it?
First, read or re-read Apple's TN2083 and verify that your ^really^
need to create a system daemon instead of a
The docs say that:
Note that although NSSerializer, NSArchiver, NSCoder, and NSEnumerator
objects are themselves thread-safe, they are listed here because it is not
safe to change the data objects wrapped by them while they are in use. For
example, in the case of an archiver, it is not safe to
It's possible it doesn't always work, but it worked for me when I
tried it...
Dave
On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Erik Buck wrote:
I haven't tried, but I don't think the following works because of
the way the pre-processor inserts spaces:
#define kConstCString This is a const c string
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Erg Consultant
erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote:
Apple's doc's specifically say to stay away from using the CString routines
which require encodings. So now the encoding issue goes away. The problem is
LSOpenApplication() does not like the FSRef I pass it which
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Erik Buck erik.b...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I haven't tried, but I don't think the following works because of the way the
pre-processor inserts spaces:
#define kConstCString This is a const c string
#define kConstNSString @kConstCString
Well, if that doesn't
Well, I got this working with a timer that just keeps track of the
activeApplication and the previously activeApplication, but I'm
intrigued by this approach, so I'd like to see if this works, too.
Here's what I've got:
ProcessSerialNumber psn;
OSErr result =
Have a look at how it works; very simple to write your own version
using their scanner that generates HTML. In fact I have a rough
implementation as a patch sitting in their tracker system somewhere.
On 28 Apr 2009, at 16:34, Mr. Gecko wrote:
Can't really do that because I'm needing it to
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Erg Consultant
erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote:
Apple's doc's specifically say to stay away from using the CString routines
which require encodings.
Where do they say that?
--
Clark S. Cox III
clarkc...@gmail.com
I've setup a NSMetaDataQuery to search for particular file types.
I've set the search scope to NSMetadataQueryLocalComputerScope. The
initial search phase works correctly. The query returns all of the
expected files on all of the local volumes.
Now if I add a file to the root volume I
Hi list!
I've tried to establish some http communication with the help of the
URL loading system.
I had to discover that the cookie accept policy setting of the shared
cookie storage effects all applications
using the URL loading system. My application needs to accept cookies
at all times.
Are these names only accessible from private frameworks or is there an
AppKit or CoreGraphics API I have yet to stumble across that maps the
display unit number or display ID to a localized (or not) display name?
The answer is in I/O Kit:
#import IOKit/graphics/IOGraphicsLib.h
#import
Hi,
I'm running into a binding issue is my main application so I wrote a small
test app to try to track down the problem: primarily that I cannot get the
UI to update appropriately when it is configured to observe my model objects
via bindings.
// AppDelegate.h
@class ModelObject;
@interface
Hi all,
First of all, I apologize because I have only been developing Cocoa for a
few months and I'm learning as I go. Hopefully I'm not making some newbie
mistake.
I am trying to write a program that, among other things, generates a list of
user and group identities using the identity picker
Hi list,
I am new to the cocoa development. I have some question to
NSArrayController
I add an object to the controller array like this:
CODE
##
NSMutableDictionary *theDicRow = [NSMutableDictionary
I'm a relative newb when it comes to cocoa programming, but I've been trying
to finish of a project and put it out there so I can get some feedback and
continue to get better. My problem is that I have a table view that's bound
to an array controller backed by user defaults in IB. Adding a single
On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Kay Jurkuhn wrote:
Is there another way to change the cookie accept setting only for my
application/process to accept all cookies?
No. As you discovered, the cookie storage settings are global and
can't be changed on a per-application basis.
Nick Zitzmann
On 28/04/2009 16:51, Stephen J. Butler stephen.but...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Erik Buck erik.b...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Don't hard code paths! Use NSHomeDirectory() or NSTemporaryDirectory() or
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains().
Not only that, but hardcoding
Hi All,
I have a horizontal NSSplitView, I want the splitter bar should remain in a
fixed postion and user should not be able to change size of upper subview or
lower subview by dragging it.
Note: Split bar should be visible but not be drag able.
Thanks,
Ashish
DISCLAIMER
==
This
On Apr 28, 2009, at 06:04, Simon Raisin wrote:
I'm running into a binding issue is my main application so I wrote a
small
test app to try to track down the problem: primarily that I cannot
get the
UI to update appropriately when it is configured to observe my model
objects
via bindings.
Don't bother with that. I did a try, and it look like the Process
Manager order has nothing to do with the cmd + tab order.
it returns -600, probably because psn is the last process in the
Process Manager list.
Sorry for the noise.
Le 28 avr. 09 à 17:55, Dave DeLong a écrit :
Well, I got
Le 28 avr. 09 à 17:47, Michael Ash a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Erg Consultant
erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote:
Apple's doc's specifically say to stay away from using the
CString routines which require encodings. So now the encoding
issue goes away. The problem is
Sounds good.
For documenting purposes, here's what I did to get this working:
In the appropriate class, I have an NSMutableArray called activeApps
and a timer called appTimer. The timer is scheduled to fire every
0.5 seconds. When it fires, it gets the activeApplication dictionary
from
You're starting off with GetCurrentProcess, which returns the process number
of your application; have you tried GetFrontProcess, which returns the front
process? This will not be your application if you're in the background.
On 04/28/2009 9:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas devli...@shadowlab.org wrote:
Yes, I tried both, and got the same result each time (-600 when trying
to get the next process).
Dave
On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Gary L. Wade wrote:
You're starting off with GetCurrentProcess, which returns the
process number
of your application; have you tried GetFrontProcess, which
Ken.
When not providing the descriptor, it would launch the app and print
the untitled document that was automatically opened. Tried it with
Comic Life and Microsoft Word, among others. Of course, I'm running
10.5.6 here. With FSRef-based AE descriptor, it opens the right
document. I
To iterate over all apps, you should pass { 0, kNoProcess } in the
first GetNextProcess call. But as I mention, the result list is not
usefull top solve this issue.
That said, using Carbon event to track application switching as
suggested sooner would be a cleaner and more reliable way to
On Mon, 2009/04/27, Martijn van Exel mve...@gmail.com wrote:
Unrelated: one of the XML attributes that needed
parsing was a ISO8601 style date string, for
which neither NSDate nor NSDateFormatter
curiously does not seem to provide a parser.
? Of course, it will parse ISO dates.
You just
Thanks, Corbin - to summarize for posterity, the implementation of
- (BOOL)outlineView:(NSOutlineView *)ov shouldSelectItem:(id)item
is using -clickedColumn and -clickedRow to determine the location of the
click, and not selecting the row (returning NO) if the cell in that location
is an enabled
On 2009 Apr 28, at 08:04, Ryan Briones wrote:
My problem is that I have a table view that's bound
to an array controller backed by user defaults in IB.
I don't know what backed by means. The 'content' binding of your
array controller should be bound to an NSUserDefaults object (labelled
On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Graham Lee wrote:
On 28/04/2009 16:51, Stephen J. Butler stephen.but...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Erik Buck
erik.b...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Don't hard code paths! Use NSHomeDirectory() or
NSTemporaryDirectory() or
is using -clickedColumn and -clickedRow to determine the location of
the
click, and not selecting the row (returning NO) if the cell in that
location
is an enabled NSButtonCell. I had originally discarded this approach
because of this line in the documentation for -clickedColumn:
The
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Jessica Billings wrote:
I am trying to write a program that, among other things, generates a
list of
user and group identities using the identity picker and then checks
to see
if the logged-on user matches any user identity or is a member of
any group.
I can do
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:59 AM, MyApps wrote:
First off, a suggestion: please don't delimit code sections like you
do. In fact, you don't need any delimiters other than whitespace (as
you can see with the edited text below). And you can see, it is just
as readable, and, IMHO, it is actually
MyApps wrote:
But I wanna have the empty string back. So it seems, that the empty
string is converted to nill and the controller is killing them out.
This works fine for me.
CODE:
NSMutableDictionary* dict =
[NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@Text A, @colA,
Continuing on with the mystery, I have tried the following code in my
NSTableView subclass (below, not yet solved though). I have got it so
that the rect returned by [fieldEditor frame] is not empty, but gives
exactly the frame it should. Still though, modifying the frame to
something
Thanks for the sugestion. I will keep the idea of passing object IDs
in mind when that situation comes up. But I think I misled you.
My data was not in Core Data yet, but rather in an archive I needed to
unfreeze and place in Core Data. In the end, I did something similar
to what you
On Apr 28, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Alexander Spohr wrote:
Am 28.04.2009 um 21:22 schrieb Keary Suska:
NSMutableDictionary *theDicRow = [NSMutableDictionary
dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@Text A, @colA,
@, @colB,
nil ];
I am not surprised to see this behavior, for various
I remember having this problem while developing Core Data apps for
testing purposes. It often happened while I modified the app in
various ways.
I think the solution was to delete the store in ApplicationSupport/
app name. If you have legacy data, you'll have to export that from
an old
On 28 Apr 2009, at 02:47, Graham Cox wrote:
Because of the cyclic nature of the network though, there isn't a
way I can see to simply sort the objects into the right order.
I snipped most of the above; anyone who cares to read it should refer
to the original message.
I think the crux of
I tried this and it absolutely works great - although I too had thought that it
wouldn't.
Who woulda thunkit?
Erg
From: Erik Buck erik.b...@sbcglobal.net
To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:18:56 AM
Subject: Re: C string
On 2009 Apr 28, at 11:41, Ryan Briones wrote:
Sorry for not using the proper terminology. I have a table view
whose columns are bound to an array controller (Controller Key:
arrangedObjects, Model Key Path: name, etc) and the array controller
is bound
You didn't say which binding.
I was reading it wrong. Page 12 Strings Programming Guide For Cocoa:
Important: NSString provides a number of methods to use Cstrings directly
(such as
stringWithCString:,initWithCString:, initWithCString:length:, and
initWithCStringNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone:). These methods use the default
Except in the case where one line of code creates the temp file and then
another immediately uses it and deletes is - as in my case. There is zero
chance the user could FUS faster than my 2 lines of code create and delete the
file.
Erg
From: Graham Lee
Check out the sample code here that demonstrates storing a dictionary
in defaults with no code.
http://idisk.mac.com/steven.riggs-Public?view=web
I hope it helps...
Steven Riggs
On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Ryan Briones wrote:
I'm a relative newb when it comes to cocoa programming, but
Well, I finally got it to work - but it took a lot of work.
How does one launch an exe inside an app bundle if LSOpenApplication isn't
desgined to do that?
Erg
From: Jean-Daniel Dupas devli...@shadowlab.org
To: cocoa-dev cocoa-...@lists.apple..com
Sent:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Erg Consultant
erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote:
How does one launch an exe inside an app bundle if LSOpenApplication isn't
desgined to do that?
exe? You need to specify what you mean: executable binary, which is
just a plain binary file, or application, which
This is a DRM situation where there are multiple app executables inside the
main .app bundle.
From: Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com
To: Erg Consultant erg_consult...@yahoo.com
Cc: cocoa-dev cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:11:40 PM
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
A road can be connected to other roads. Currently each road keeps a list of
the subroads that are connected to it, which is a parent-child
relationship. A parent road can have any number of child roads, but a child
road
On 2009 Apr 23, at 13:53, Melissa J. Turner wrote:
Unwinding to the original message, the most correct thing to do
would be to add a derived property letterGrade which is
automatically updated whenever grade is, which then allows you to
search against that.
I don't know if a derived
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ashish Tiwari
ashish_tiw...@persistent.co.in wrote:
I have a horizontal NSSplitView, I want the splitter bar should remain in a
fixed postion and user should not be able to change size of upper subview or
lower subview by dragging it.
What have you tried?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Erg Consultant
erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote:
Except in the case where one line of code creates the temp file and then
another immediately uses it and deletes is - as in my case. There is zero
chance the user could FUS faster than my 2 lines of code create
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org wrote:
If Melissa is referring to a managed property, if it is non-transient, then
yes this could be used in the predicate of a Core Data fetch. The
disadvantage is that now every object in every store has this redundant
(derived)
I have two standard Cocoa objects in my window that I animate using CA's AppKit
-animator method. When my nib loads, I get the original NSRects of the two
items by sending them the -frame message. I then recalc the rects to move the
two views offscreen.
When I show my window, I animate both
I've been having 2 intermittent compilation errors
on 10.3.9 in
- (BOOL)loadDataRepresentation:(NSData*)data ofType:(NSString*)fileType
{
BOOL success;
NSString * lowercaseFileType = [fileType lowercaseString];
NSLog(@fileType=%S, lowercaseFileType);
if
On Apr 28, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Erg Consultant wrote:
This is a DRM situation where there are multiple app executables
inside the main .app bundle.
NSTask.
Charles
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Hello,
When implementing the while-loop in the main function of an NSThread,
is it correct to assume it is more efficient on the operating system
to run the current run-loop until a specified date rather than just
use NSThread sleepUntilDate to obtain the delay? I ask because I
don't
On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Bess Ho wrote:
Sorry for the delay in response. I'll need more help.
I follow suggestions on using applicationDidFinishLaunching: and
applicationWillTerminate: methods on AppDelegate.
It won't print NSLog when I stop the app on Console and throw errors
when
On Apr 28, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Jeffrey Oleander wrote:
On Mon, 2009/04/27, Martijn van Exel mve...@gmail.com wrote:
Unrelated: one of the XML attributes that needed
parsing was a ISO8601 style date string, for
which neither NSDate nor NSDateFormatter
curiously does not seem to provide a
On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
Except in the case where one line of code creates the temp file and
then another immediately uses it and deletes is - as in my case.
There is zero chance the user could FUS faster than my 2 lines of
code create and delete the file.
By virtue
(apologies for the delay; I've been on vacation for the last few days
and just got back)
On Apr 28, 2009, at 14:32, Kyle Sluder wrote:
So step 1 is to stop clinging to normalization rules. (My database
professor would kill me for that sentence, but it's true.) There
really is no redundancy
On 29/04/2009, at 8:34 AM, Jeffrey Oleander wrote:
I've been having 2 intermittent compilation errors
on 10.3.9 in
- (BOOL)loadDataRepresentation:(NSData*)data ofType:
(NSString*)fileType
{
BOOL success;
NSString * lowercaseFileType = [fileType lowercaseString];
On 29/04/2009, at 11:51 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
You can't have static objects in Objective-C
Correction - I meant to say *stack* objects...
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Hi everyone.
I have a small problem with readToEndOfFileInBackgroundAndNotify which is
that I can't seem to get it to work right. ;) I am seeding the connection
with the file name, and everything looks right except that I keep getting
NSConcreteFileHandle: 0x1abfd0 and *** -[NSConcreteFileHandle
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Pierce Freeman
piercefreema...@comcast.net wrote:
- (void)readAllTheData:(NSNotification *)note {
NSString *errors = nil;
NSData *contentsOfDockFile = [note object];
NSLog(@%@, contentsOfDockFile);
NSDictionary *testing =
Thanks for your help. I don't get those strange errors anymore, however no
if I try to save the NSDIctionary to a file (NSDictionary's writeToFile), my
app seems to freeze up and in the Debugger it says:
Program loaded.
sharedlibrary apply-load-rules all
Attaching to program:
On Apr 28, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Pierce Freeman wrote:
Thanks for your help. I don't get those strange errors anymore,
however no
if I try to save the NSDIctionary to a file (NSDictionary's
writeToFile),
You're releasing a variable that you don't own (testing). See the
Cocoa memory
Hey Adam:
Thanks for your reply. I added [testing retain] after the declaration of
the variable, and I no longer get the wheel of death and my app freezing up.
In response to your comment about why I am using NSFileHandle, it is because
in the final version of this app I will need to scan
You were right there. All you have to do to get it to work is check
'Handles content as compound value' on the array controller content
array binding.
All the best,
Steven Riggs
On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Ryan Briones wrote:
Hey, thanks! I actually ran across your code last night
That was it. Thanks.
On Apr 28, 2009, at 1:07 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
I am trying to create a framework out of some files that I use in a
few
apps. I expected this to be easy, but instead got a kazillion
warnings, all
of which take the form:
objc_class_name_NAME
Hi, All
I'm trying to use the NSOutputStream class to transfer some audio file
through Bonjour service which is implemented on the iPhone simulator.I try
the following code with some small text files. It works well. But there are
always some error occurs() when I try to send the bigger ones --
On 28 Apr 09, at 21:11, yiling wu wrote:
I'm trying to use the NSOutputStream class to transfer some audio file
through Bonjour service which is implemented on the iPhone
simulator.I try
the following code with some small text files. It works well. But
there are
always some error occurs()
Hello ppl
Cocoa gives me default file associations with apps in this code
NSString * path_ok= @/Users/pd/Desktop/pd.rtf;
[ws openFile:path_ok withApplication:nil];
But when i try this i get an obvious error
NSString * path= @/Users/pd/Desktop/pd2.large;
NSWorkspace * ws =
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